I thought that since this project magically seemed to have appear out of nowhere, it might be nice to move all of the discussion of the general aspects of the project into its own thread, so that new people coming in might have a better chance of figuring out what's going on, what subparts of the project we're working on, and in general, how much has actually been accomplished.

Cool? Cool.

First up - here's all of the threads that Silverblade started up with the revelation that we should start in on this thing: